Dell Vostro 3350

Dell company based in Germany recently has updated the product pages for the notebook-sized 13.3-inch Vostro 3350 with a list following specifications. That way, Is the Dell Vostro 3350 laptop is going to be the first to support graphics cards AMD Radeon HD 7000 series are based on the architecture of the Southern Islands?

As for the graphics card in question is none other than AMD Radeon HD 7450M. And according to Dell's own, this graphics card made by feature 160 shader cores are paired with GDDR5 memory for a total bandwidth of 13GB/sec.

Regardless of the Radeon HD 7000 graphics card, the Dell Vostro 3350 13.3-inch size seems there is nothing extraordinary as adopters that can be configured with one of three Intel Sandy Bridge (I3-2310M,-2410M i5, and i7-2620M) that can be paired together with system memory up to 6GB capacity. Depending on the CPU and other hardware that is selected, consumers who want to buy Dell Vostro 3350 notebook is reportedly must pay an amount of 489 EUR or equivalent to 6 million dollars only. Meanwhile, if consumers want to use graphics cards AMD Radeon HD 7450M, consumers will incur a surcharge of 60 EUR or equivalent to 743 thousand dollars.

With the presence of AMD's Radeon HD 7450M is certainly has confirmed the existence of rumors that circulated earlier that states that AMD will launch the GPU Radeon HD 7000 series (codename: Southern Island) in the third quarter (Q3) in 2011.

Please note together, GPU AMD Radeon HD 7000 series is based on the settings the same VLIW4 ever introduced to the Cayman architecture (AMD HD 6900-series). GPU is reportedly built with a 28nm manufacturing process. So with that, the use of fabrication node is certainly going to allow AMD to lower power requirements of the chip Southern Island, and also improve the graphics performance. Meanwhile, AMD will reportedly also formally release the latest series graphics core by the end of this year. But when asked for confirmation about the details related to that, AMD also seems reluctant to express them.